Naturkatastrophen (weltweit)

[Schneemann]

Wie Erich schon anmerkte (und erweiterte): Ich befürchte das Schlimmste und offenkundig ist es auch so, dass das (lokale) Rote Kreuz selbst ebenso denkt. Mutmaßlich werden wir erst in einigen Tagen und Wochen das ganze Ausmaß der Tragödie kennen.

Red Cross Fears 1,200 Deaths in Philippine Typhoon

MANILA — The powerful typhoon that swept across the Philippines on Friday, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through several central islands, leaving the seaside city of Tacloban in ruins and leading to early estimates of at least 1,200 dead. [...]

“The local Red Cross chapter has seen many bodies,” Gwendolyn Pang, the secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, said in a text message. “An actual body count has to be done to determine the exact number.” [...] A United Nations disaster assessment team visited the area on Saturday. “The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami,” Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, the head of the team, said in a statement, referring to the 2004 tsunami that devastated parts of Indonesia and other countries. “This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed, and the streets are strewn with debris.

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/world/asia/philippines-typhoon.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/world ... .html?_r=0</a><!-- m -->

Schneemann.